Heat index in migrant farmworker housing: Implications for rest and recovery from work-related heat stress

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 103, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Quandt, Sara A ^a   Wiggins, Melinda F ^b   Chen, Haiying ^a   Bischoff, Werner E ^a   Arcury, Thomas A ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEAT; HEAT INJURY; HOUSING; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRATION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; AIR CONDITIONING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HOT TEMPERATURE; HOUSING; HUMANS; MALE; NORTH CAROLINA; RISK FACTORS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 84880157643     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.301135     Document Type: Article

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